When you're afraid of someone's judgment, you can't connect with them. You're too preoccupied with the task of impressing them.

There's a fundamental disconnection in society in the way we live, this way we live that we take so for granted, and we've become very separate from one another and we don't really take lot of time to realize that. And the math is overwhelming to the point of despair, but the answers could be so simple.

When you trust people to help you, they often do.

It feels like it is a daily work and an ongoing task to undo all of the f - - g programming that I have had all my life about who I am supposed to be and how I'm supposed to look and that I'm supposed to win. It's a daily deconstruction of all that bullshit.

On many days, harder than the act of making the art itself is the act of sharing it and living in a culture that you know is built to tear you down.

I make the music that I want to make and make the show that I want to make. If you like it, you come. If you don't like it, you don't have to.

The perfect tools aren't going to help us if we can't face each other and give and receive fearlessly, but more important, to ask without shame.